Related categories: World - North America / Black, Asian & Other Diasporas /
Related booklists: Black America - The Civil Rights Movement,
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Malcolm X,
Black and Asian America - Books for Children,
Asian and Middle Eastern America and Canada,
Barack and Michelle Obama,
Civil Rights Movement: Books for Children and Young Adults,
Multiculturalism,
The Black Lives Matter movement,
Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 23 books in this booklist
£23.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781479818495 | ISBN 10: 1479818496
Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of a ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571376827 | ISBN 10: 0571376827
BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023 A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices. ‘An outstanding journalist and chronicler.’ ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839768309 | ISBN 10: 1839768304
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United Stat ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787635838 | ISBN 10: 178763583x
'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist 'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES You know how he died. This is how ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141997445 | ISBN 10: 0141997443
The international bestseller that changed how we talk about racism. Walk into any racially mixed secondary school and you will see young people clustered in their own groups according to race. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781984857705 | ISBN 10: 1984857703
A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to t ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781541647435 | ISBN 10: 1541647432
In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-ag ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786076519 | ISBN 10: 1786076519
Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist, helping to bring the Black Lives Matter movement into being. Now, in his first book, he ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206
Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781608467853 | ISBN 10: 1608467856
Analysing intersections of race, class, and gender alongside primary texts, this unique volume explores racism and antiracism in the US. Considering the connections between class and racial oppression, and the often marginalized role of th ... more
View book details£22.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780316552967 | ISBN 10: 0316552968
Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times – until now. Unseen uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.&n ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241334003 | ISBN 10: 0241334004
'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher fath ... more
View book details£18.95 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780674976450 | ISBN 10: 0674976452
America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781612196886 | ISBN 10: 1612196888
“Show up. Dive in. Persevere. Sometimes you’ll win. Sometimes you’ll lose.” The final speeches of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama. Both speeches were instant and moving lan ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781909762572 | ISBN 10: 1909762571
On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighbourhood watchman ended his young life. In a matter of weeks, Trayvon Martin’s name w ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781925228311 | ISBN 10: 1925228312
Named a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Esquire, and Time. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every 15 people born there today is expected to go to prison. For black men t ... more
View book details£23.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358374 | ISBN 10: 0822358379
Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic foru ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781608197651 | ISBN 10: 1608197654
"...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped."(Harriet Tubman) In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicid ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781595587718 | ISBN 10: 1595587713
When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was questioned by the police on the front porch of his home in an affluent section of Cambridge, many people across the country reacted with surprise and disbelief. But African American men from coast to c ... more
View book details£11.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849350228 | ISBN 10: 1849350221
In 1970, the feds framed Eddie Conway for the murder of a Baltimore City Police officer. He was 24 years old. They threw him in prison, took him away from his family, his friends, and his organizing, and tried to relegate him to a life marked by noth ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847084576 | ISBN 10: 1847084575
A walker, a reader and a gazer, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is also a skilled talker whose impromptu kerbside exchanges with Harlem's most colourful residents are transmuted into a slippery, silky set of observations on what change and opportunity have wrou ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099549482 | ISBN 10: 0099549484
'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' This book presents a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking ... more
View book details£18.98 audiobook on CD (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847673282 | ISBN 10: 1847673287
The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotion ... more
View book details© News From Nowhere Co-operative Ltd IP24524R 2004-2024 | Privacy policy | Contact | return to top of page